So look at that. DOGE has cost the US Treasury fucking half a trillion dollars. HALF A TRILLION DOLLARS. This is your cost savings.
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Jacob Bogage
To review what we from @washingtonpost.com are reporting out of the IRS today:
- Projected tax revenue this year is down 10% ($500 billion) as Trump's downsizing is emboldening tax cheats
- IRS is nearing an agreement with ICE to assist on mass deportations
- Projected tax revenue this year is down 10% ($500 billion) as Trump's downsizing is emboldening tax cheats
- IRS is nearing an agreement with ICE to assist on mass deportations
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It predicted that the drop-off would lead to a $64bn shortfall in the US tourist trade.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/22/tourism-trump-immigration-arrests?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
while foreign tourism maybe very imnportant in a few areas like NYC, overall it is such a tiny part of US economy as to be irrelevant
sorry
The farm subsidies for his tariff 2.0 have not even begun.
Memory lane with farm tariffs:
The longer the madness continues the less attractive visiting becomes.
Countries are issuing warnings about visiting.
Stop the Coup!
Half a trillion dollars is just the start of the damage assessment of the first two months.
Half a trillion would fund the losers and suckers at the VA for a year.
Don't know don't care.
I hadn’t even thought of that…Not that I think of everything.
Exactly!
Everyone should be visiting the Republicans in Congress at their offices and demanding they take their power back and use it!
The endgame is literally regression to feudalism
You can't replace something that operates properly because the people won't accept it. They'll revolt
Destroying public institutions so they can be replaced with private, for-profit endeavors is a hallmark of fascism
In Milwaukee and all over the elec scooters were banned. For safety reasons but really it was because the scooter company was operating in city limits and not paying anything. Once they figured out how to charge?
Once you come to the understanding that destruction of the system is the point of everything they are doing, every act of trump, musk etal makes perfect sense.
TV, radio, social media. Smack people in the face with it.
Tell them they’re going to try and take the Social Security that they paid into next if they don’t do something about it.
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See https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/americas-finance-guide/government-revenue/#sources-of-federal-revenue
Once you come to the understanding that destruction of the system is the point of everything they are doing, every act of trump, musk etal makes perfect sense.
Is this really how Americans want to treat people- ANY people???
https://apple.news/As4A9FF6_TNaA-g2PEAsTGQ
Women and black people still haven’t made it to the moon. History of discrimination.
Part of how we get played is reporters taking things at face value, not real facts.
This drives me absolutely insane,& I notice it in virtually all news articles. Even ones supposedly criticizing him.
"Issues loom with Pres Trump's mission to root out fraud"
"Trump & Musk's focus on finding waste is causing problems"
Etc
No- his CLAIM to be rooting out fraud.
https://news.clemson.edu/new-irs-funding-boosted-tax-enforcement-and-improved-taxpayer-services-during-the-biden-administration/
He was able to do this because Congress increased funding to the IRS so they had the muscle to go after rich tax cheaters.
#TaxTheRich
It was just getting started.
$2,176B in income taxes were collected in 2023. $1.3B in back taxes is only 0.06% of 2023's income tax revenue. Maybe it would have increased nonlinearly as the IRS grew, but 0.06% is ... underwhelming.
The push for “efficiency” is a cover for privateering & predatory privatization, deregulation, the erosion of rights and freedoms, and wealth concentration.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1h29OrkRE4CbZYHG-E77L_ULZxy2CGHwD/view?usp=drivesdk
Very efficiency
-Judicial Reform
-Actionable Checks and Balances (not just handshakes and pinky promises)
-Vigorous pursuit of these abuses
-Massive Tax overall, IRS fully funded
-you don't get my vote.
A private cup.
Good listen, great speaker. Dem that asked to be waived onto this committee, regarding DOGE. The ONLY Dem. doge's fraud, waste and abuse bullshit. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wTs4iuqMIRw
ICE's standards are, as expected, quite low, and very racist.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/03/immigration-trump-news-mass-deportations-tren-de-aragua.html
Limbaugh-
"How many years have people tried to scare everybody about [the deficit]? How many years, how many decades have politicians tried to scare us about the deficit, the national debt, (Sen. Jim Sasser pronunciation) "the dafycit," any number of things?...
https://youtu.be/QuUx3IL0a-0?si=Etb5Ex_jEqOLKasi
Trump is fine with zero income tax as he and the majority of people who work around him have been in court over tax evasion.
You can't charge someone with tax evasion if you don't collect it. 🤔🤫
It’s also called auto-genocide!
I am so glad you posted this.
I keep telling people about this.
They actually want to kill us!
Senior citizens, chronically ill, disabled & poor etc…
They think we are a drain on society & do not deserve to live!
That right there is heartless, cruel Nazism!
Truth survives. Kindness matters. Love is supreme.
Seems fair.
Maybe the military needs to get out of the golf business.
The U.S. military operates 146 golf facilities located in 40 states, the District of Columbia, and 11 overseas countries.
And Trump: Trump has played golf 17 days out of the 61 days of his presidency. Cost: $18 million
Those courses "receive no taxpayer funding and, by law, must be self-sufficient."
Courses outside the U.S. or in remote U.S. locations may be exceptions to the self-sufficiency rule.
Most of them are on federal land and pay nothing for that.
I say let them play golf and let Trump pay for his own golf.
Seems like it must be an oversight on musk’s part somehow. Like he’s so high IQ that he couldn’t make this mistake…. Oh, oh wait…. Maybe, noooo, it couldn’t be on purpose… surely not.
I am so looking forward to trying to explain this to ICE.
Still, commit fraud at your own future peril.
And faces
Om nom nom
Of course people aren’t going to pay taxes. Why should they if we don’t actually have a working government anyway. Why should they if they’re not getting medicare and social security. Why should they?
$500 billion is roughly 20% of all federal income taxes collected! Only the self employed and corporations will benefit as everything else is reported to the IRS.
They intend to RULE over the rest of us
Definitely not his state run media.
Write to your elected disappointments, CALL THEM. Don’t let your silence be your complicity.
defunding the police is about dealing with so called criminality with people professionally trained to recognize mental health issues and the abject inequality and systemic racism that is at the root cause of most crimes. and ending the private, for profit prison complex. ffs
it's gonna be one of 'those' days😖😂
The IRS will still go after the small guy.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/brianbushard/2022/12/21/trump-paid-0-in-taxes-in-2020-heres-what-to-know-about-his-tax-returns/
https://bsky.app/profile/jacobbogage.bsky.social/post/3lkyn5tqytc2f
In related news who knows what ICE and IRD "suspect"
Talk about never missing an opportunity to promote his own conflicts of interest, & rubbing our noses in it.
Apparently we need these corporate sponsorship patches for unelected billionaire citizens, too.
Their goal has always been to starve the beast that is our gov't.
A gov't that freed the slaves, let them vote and tried to give them equal rights and opportunities.
If that wasn't bad enough, the gov't gave the wealth stolen from the former slaves back to them.